At a beautiful garden, full of fruit trees, a feast was spread under a noble banyan, the vice- reine causing the cloth next to her to be allotted to her guests, whom she tended affectionately, gathering and paring fruit, cutting flowers and weaving them for them, and, unlike the Hindoos, freely eating what they handed her.

This hospitable and amiable lady had just begun to ask Mrs.Judson the difference between the Christians' God and Gautama, when she was obliged to return to Ava.
For several months Mr.Judson's illness increased; but exercise on horseback did much to relieve him, and the comfort and encouragement of the arrival of a brother missionary, Mr.Hough, with his family, did more.

He weathered the attack without leaving his post, and in 1817 made his first real step.

A press had come out with Mr.Hough, and with it two little tracts, summarizing the chief truths of Christianity, were printed and distributed at Rangoon.
Shortly after, a respectable-looking Burmese, attended by a servant, walked into Mr.Judson's house, and sat down.

Presently he inquired, "How long a time will it take me to learn the religion of JESUS ?" Mr.Judson answered, that where God gave light and wisdom, it was soon learnt; but without, a whole lifetime would not teach a man.